Ash Maurya Lean Startup process, going beyond Lean Canvas to StrategyAndRisks board and Validated Learning board. (more)

Yong Zhao, who has a history of saying the US is making a mistake in trying to emulate China school models, has a new World Class Learners book out - ISBN:1452203989 (Educating Kids) (more)

Rusty Guinn: Lack of Imagination. I AM saying that treating the markets like a first-year banking analyst at Morgan Stanley – organizing a model completely around a single key variable – is a recipe for tunnel vision on that variable to the detriment of a million other things that matter. Not just things over some short, ‘irrational’ period – I’m talking about things that really matter to asset prices and returns over extended periods. (more)

Rusty Guinn: A New Gilded Age. ...more important half of Twain’s point. The elegant idea of the Gilded Age is not that it was about prosperity. It is that it was about the narrative of prosperity. (more)

Ben Hunt: Self Assured Destruction. ...a dangerous and utterly unstable relationship with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (coronavirus) (more)

Ben Hunt: Schrödinger's Senate Hearing. Schrödinger is saying that reality is – in reality – probabilistic. That the actual physical reality is that the cat is both alive AND dead at the same time. (more)

Rusty Guinn on Free-Range Kids / Free-Range Capitalism. One of our jobs is to protect our kids. But they must be more than safe to become men-in-full. (Man In Full) (more)

Peter Cecchini: No Free Lunches. We maintain that the recent rally is a bear market bounce and that the correction over the past couple of days is the start of a more sustained selloff. We believe market participants will eventually catch on to the fact that THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES OVER THE LONG-TERM. (more)

Elizabeth Warren: Here’s how we can break up Big Tech. A century ago, in the Gilded Age, waves of mergers led to the creation of some of the biggest companies in American history (more)

need to try and assemble some of my political/philosophical World View stuff together into some context... I'm giving up logic/proof for the moment and just trying to mix-master these things to tie them together (hmm, Diagram Of Effects?). Let's call the below "Claims". (more)

One type of The Family. (more)

see The Family

Jane Jacobs term - includes Suburbs and Hinterlands - see Cities And The Wealth Of Nations; area including/around a city (more)

Theory is that UnEmployment is due to potential jobs going unfilled because there aren't enough people with the training/skills (College Degree) to do it. Then why haven't the salaries for such jobs increased? (2019-01-09) The Skills Gap Was A Lie

Massive(ly) Transformative Purpose (more)

Singularity University (abbreviated SU) is a Silicon Valley think tank that offers educational programs and a business incubator.[2][3] According to its website, it focuses on scientific progress and "exponential" technologies.[4] It was founded in 2008 by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil at the NASA Research Park in California, United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_University (more)

Art Kleiner's Core Group theory - Why do organizations really exist?... in real-life practice, 3 fundamental concerns (or purposes) drive most decisions... (1) Fulfilling the perceived desires and needs of a Core Group of elite people. (2) Fulfilling a Creative Imperative. (People come to organizations to "do stuff" at a scale larger than any individual could manage alone) (3) What is the Right Thing to Do? (Sustainable Capitalism)

Emergencies identified by the World Federation Of Scientists (more)

Tired of Today’s Platforms? Run Your Own Social Media Network. Mozilla Fellow Darius Kazemi has published a DIY playbook for those disenchanted with Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms. (more)

Discussion Forum hosting company spun out of The WELL for awhile. (more)